Penzance Harbour Users Association
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From 1322 to the present day, Penzance Harbour has served seafarers. Since 1322, fishermen have been paying dues to use harbour facilities at Penzance.
The southern arm of the pier was built in 1766 and extended in 1785, to add to the first pier of which was built in 1512.
At the same time as the railway was being built more improvements were being made to the harbour, with a second pier on the eastern side of the harbour, the Albert Pier, completed in 1853 to provide even better shelter for shipping and a lighthouse built on the Old Pier in 1855. The Isles of Scilly Steam Navigation Company was founded in 1858 and placed in service the first steam ship on the route, SS Little Western. In 1870 the new West Cornwall Steam Ship Company joined the route, taking over the Scilly Isles Company the following year.
In 1853 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stationed one of their boats in the town, the first since 1812, and maintained a station here until 1908 when the Watson Class Elizabeth Blanche was transferred to Newlyn as the first step towards setting up Penlee Lifeboat Station. The RNLI still use a boat house built on Jennings Street near the Promenade in 1884 to promote their activities. Penzance, with its dry dock and engineering facilities, was chosen as the western depot for Trinity House that serviced all the lighthouses and lightships from Start Point to Trevose Head. It was opened in October, 1866 adjacent to the harbour and the Buoy Store became the Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum until 2005 when Trinity House closed the museum.
A larger dry dock replaced Matthews' original facility (1880), and a floating harbour was made (1884) with lock gates to keep in the water at low tide.
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facebook.comThere is a vacancy for Secretary of Penzance Harbour Users Association. If you are interested (Should be IT literate, able to produce minutes and promotional material and familiar with Social Media and Websites/Blogs), please eMail pzharbourusers@gmail.com
As part of the Pirates Day during August Bank Holiday Luggers will be mounting a raid on St Michaels Mount leaving at 10.00hrs. Anyone can join in. www.piratesontheprom.co.uk
Does anyone have a road trailer that they could lend to move an Enterprise dinghy from Pz to Wherrytown?
Boat Lift in message from Roger Lowry: Apologies to those who have booked already... Spaces are available: Sat 1st April 2 Plus those who can dry out on pontoon at beginning/end of lift Sun 2nd 9 Sat 22nd 4 Sun 23rd 5 Sat 29th 1 Sun 30th 6 27 spaces – about 30 boats.... It’s expensive on the car park from May 1st. Regards Roger
If anyone knows the owner of Santiago on running mooring 26, it is trying to sink.
http://www.cornwalllive.com/penzance-s-hopes-over-potential-100million-harbour-breakwater-investment-have-been-boosted/story-30168464-detail/story.html
Here are a list of dates and availability some more booked than others. Out with the anti fouling and get booking…. Saturday March 11th 2 booked as Scillonian in the way. So room for ten. Saturday April 1st 8 booked room for 2 fin keels & 2 or 3 others. Sunday April 2nd 3 booked room for 4 fin keels & 2 or 3 others. Saturday April 22nd 6 booked room for 4 fin keels & 2 or 3 others. Sunday April 23rd 5 booked room for 1 fin keel & 6 others. Saturday April 29th 9 booked room for 1 fin keel & some to maybe dry-out depending on draught Sunday April 30th 3 booked room for 6 fin keels as above These are the only dates, unless you wish to book individually at extra expense. 01736 360214 or rogerlowryf13@gmail.com
Please pass around and let us know if you know anyone so that we can pass the message on. Quite urgent.: The film's working title is "Black Island" and follows the story of a marooned 18th Century Pirate. More info on the film itself can be seen on our crowd funding page: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/black-island We are shooting between on the 9th - 12th of March at Porthcurno Beach and we need the boat for the beach landing scenes that will be shot on the Friday 10th of March. Weather may of course be an issue but we can only cross that bridge when we come to it (I am praying for a decent day but unless it is torrential rain we will be going ahead with it) We have actors coming down from London and have raised a decent budget for a student film and we have high ambitions of what we can make at this level. The boat itself does not need to be sailed in the film, it only needs to be beached as in the story two characters are marooning a third character. So small is ok as long as its believable that three people could fit in it. The boat needs to be wooden ideally and look as vintage as possible, believable that it is an 18th century boat is the aim. Either a row boat that would be transportable from car park to the water's edge, or sailable onto the beach. We are willing to pay for this and will of course cover all costs and expenses to anyone who is able to help us.
Boat Careena app rears to have toppled over into another boat:
Some damage to boats in the harbour and shifted moorings.
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This may be of interest to members: Dr Ashley’s Pleasure Yacht by R.W.H. Miller ISBN: 9780718894504 RRP: £20 Available in Paperback, PDF, ePub and Kindle versions. The Book: Institutional foundation stories have a tendency to change and develop with the passage of time and much repetition. Maritime social historian, R.W.H. Miller, here explores the life of The Rev. John Ashley and his association with the foundation story of the Mission to Seafarers, the work of which society is much admired by its present Patron, HRH the Princess Royal. The traditional story is that Ashley’s son, out walking by the Bristol Channel with his father, in the early 1830s, asked how the islanders could go to church. Ashley went to see, and from the islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm seeing large fleets of wind bound ships, asked himself the same question. He used his own money (deriving mainly from the trade of sugar and slaves) to build a schooner, which he sailed in all weathers to provide an answer, in the process creating for himself a place in the ancestry of several Anglican and Catholic societies, of which the Mission to Seafarers, the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, and the Apostleship of the Sea, continue to provide seafarers with a valued and often heroic service. The Author: R.W.H. Miller, currently a Catholic priest in the west of England, has been a long-time student of Maritime Social History and member of the Society for Nautical Research and the International Maritime Economic History Association. He has worked for both the Missions to Seamen and the Apostleship of the Sea. He is the author of Priest in Deep Water (2010) and One Firm Anchor (2013), also published by The Lutterworth Press. Praise for the Book: "I have been familiar for many years with Dr Miller’s work on the history of the Church and the merchant seafarer. Dr Ashley’s Pleasure Yacht uncovers the life of a nineteenth-century clergyman, John Ashley, a man with private means deriving from family sugar estates in Jamaica, makes some surprising discoveries. As Ashley is often claimed as the founder of the Mission to Seafarers, the story of his work visiting wind-bound ships in the Bristol Channel has been told often. Less well known is a major disagreement with his committee and what followed." -Professor Séan McGrail, Emeritus, Professor of Maritime Archaeology, Oxford University
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